I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

Hans Frank

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

Eddie Van Halen

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Jane Austen

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.

Spike Lee

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

George R.R. Martin

Never ask of money spentWhere the spender thinks it went.Nobody was ever meantTo remember or inventWhat he did with every cent.

Robert Frost, The Hardship of Ac

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

Peter Jennings

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Maurice Maeterlinck

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

Ed Bradley

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.

Edward James Olmos

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.

Malcolm Muggeridge